Explosion in Danvers MA

Early this morning, around 2:45 AM, my wife and I were woken up by a thunderous boom that shook the house. We both jumped out of bed, looked out the window, but all was quiet. I thought maybe the explosion was downstairs in the basement so I went down to check it out. My wife turned on the TV and tuned in to local Boston news channels but there was nothing about an explosion. No breaking news. Nothing. Finally I went outside to see if I could tell what happened. Still not luck.

We were up for almost an hour worried that something bad had happened. It was hard to go back to sleep. For us, being from New York City, it was strange how quiet the streets were. It seems the explosion did not wake any of our neighbors. And there was nothing on the local news. As a matter of fact the local news was nothing more than a re-broadcast of an early news broadcast. Boy, we miss NY1 at times like this.

Well, the mystery of what happened was uncovered this morning when I checked Boston.com. Seems there was a major chemical explosion in near by Danvers.

We live a few miles from Danvers and we felt the affects of the explosion, so it must have been one heck of an explosion. As I said it woke up from our sleep and shook the house. And we live a few miles away. It's amazing no one was seriously hurt.

posted by Kirby | 22-Nov-2006 6:45 AM | comments (1)

We live across the water from the Chemical company. It appears that we are being forgotten on this side of the explosion. Six homes appear from the outside to have only broken windows; but when you go inside three of these homes it is obvious that they sustained MAJOR structural damage. Some homes have no walls, beams crushed, doors have had to be nailed closed and windows boarded up. The Town has forgotten us we have to keep our eyes open and our mouths open as I feel we are being neglected.

Today on the news it said that the Chemical Company hasn't had a recent inspection since it was so small insurance companies, Town Officials only concentrated on the larger companies.

Now where do we stand?

posted by Janice Knox | November 29 11:34 AM

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